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Maid of Buttermere


Maid of Buttermere



von: Melvyn Bragg

3,99 €

Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 21.06.2012
ISBN/EAN: 9781848942585
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 480

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Melvyn Bragg's highly acclaimed, bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals.'This is the story of an impostor and bigamist, a self-styled Colonel Hope, who travels to the North, where eventually he marries &quote;The Maid of Buttermere&quote;, a young woman whose natural beauty inspired the dreams and confirmed the theories of various early nineteenth-century writers . . . It is a fine story . . . This is historical fiction with a human face'Peter Ackroyd, The Times'A skilled, ornate and convincing examination of a nineteenth-century scandal in Bragg's own Cumbria'Thomas Keneally'A triumph . . . I am overwhelmingly impressed'Beryl Bainbridge'Bragg achieves the most difficult of feats, the telling of the changing perceptions and ideals of a radical age . . . He is also as powerful as ever in his description of nature'Sunday Times

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